freeze dried vs. frozen bloodworms

[jesster2]

Hi everybody. I have always gotten frozen bloodworms and fed them to my fish. I was always wary of the freeze dried, but am willing to give it a try if others have had success with them. So which is it, Freeze dried or Frozen? Would there be any nutrional differences in the different ways they are packaged? Thanks everyone!!

Jesse

[suphi]

I used freeze-dried bloodworms almost exclusively with my ranchu fry last year. Nutrition-wise, they're not as good as the fresh frozen counterpart--my fry didn't develop as fast or as well as I hoped. Fresh frozen bloodworm, on the other hand, can make your water quality go south very quickly especially if you feed a lot like I do. I almost always have to do a large water change the following day or even 6 hours after feed.

[small_ranchu]

Nutrition-wise, live one is the best follow by frozen and freeze dried is the next.

Suphi: I don't think frozen bloodworm effect the water quality that bad. I am giving them 4 big chunk of frozen cube(4 feeds of pellet during the day time) every day and just do 100% water change twice a week. Water is still very clear. I guess it is something to do with filter.

[TheTruth]

i think freeze dried bloodworms are constipating,frozen are much better,tuna fish is the best

[suphi]

Fred, yeah. I don't use filter with my TVR.

[small_ranchu]

Fred, yeah. I don't use filter with my TVR.
I use sponge filter. In your case, I would do 100% water change every other day.

[jesster2]

I usually give my guys about three cubes of frozen every other day. I think my water quality doesn't suffer too much, but it does effect it short term. I wonder if I thaw them in other water and then give them to my fish if that will keep water even better. What do you all think?

[sanggarra]

Suphi,
When I feed freeze dried blood worm (FDBW) they float around and not sinking if at all. Fishes seems to be gulping in lotsa air.
How do you feed your fish FDBW? Just dump in or pre-soak? Any recommendations?

I am reading FDBW causes indigestion and possible SBD, true?

I used freeze-dried bloodworms almost exclusively with my ranchu fry last year. Nutrition-wise, they're not as good as the fresh frozen counterpart--my fry didn't develop as fast or as well as I hoped. Fresh frozen bloodworm, on the other hand, can make your water quality go south very quickly especially if you feed a lot like I do. I almost always have to do a large water change the following day or even 6 hours after feed.

[suphi]

Suphi,
When I feed freeze dried blood worm (FDBW) they float around and not sinking if at all. Fishes seems to be gulping in lotsa air.
How do you feed your fish FDBW? Just dump in or pre-soak? Any recommendations?

I am reading FDBW causes indigestion and possible SBD, true?


FDBW floats, that's the way it is and that's how I fed my fry. I don't know about indigestion and SBD since I had no problem. I also fed powder food that also floats and the fry turned out ok. So, I'm not so sure about the correlation between SBD and floating food. Fish that has a tendency to float will do so no matter what type of food is given, the amount of food that would compress on the swim bladder has more to do with it, IMO.

Good TVRs don't float. Their front swim bladder doesn't get crunched as typical fat-bodied fish.

[suphi]

I usually give my guys about three cubes of frozen every other day. I think my water quality doesn't suffer too much, but it does effect it short term. I wonder if I thaw them in other water and then give them to my fish if that will keep water even better. What do you all think?

The outer skin layers of BW don't get digested, come out with poops and float around creating messy water. I dunno but it bothers me a bit since I don't enjoy the look/smell/cleaning. I do 4 cubes at a time these days, weekends only as I have more time to clean. I have to admit though that bloodworms does help with fish-human bonding making them less shy.

[Ranchu Rancher]

Jesse if you are going to thaw them first, use water from the tank just to be safe. I feed bloodworms to my fish at least once a day and sometimes twice. Suphi I agree the fish go crazy for BW,I'm glad goldfish don't have teeth or I wouldn't have any fingers.

Gregg

[Ranchufan16]

with doing so many 100% water changes, does that not kill your beneficial bacteria build up? I always thought that in order to runny a healthy system never do 100% water changes so frequently:youtellme: